Prof. Alexander Horstmann (Tallinn University)
Curriculum Vitae
Alexander Horstmann
is a social anthropologist, working currently on a project on the Karen
refugee crisis, humanitarian assistance and on the centrality of
religion and religious movements in the strategies and life transitions
of Karen refugees. He also continues his research on coexistence of
Theravada Buddhism and Islam in Southern Thailand. Before joining the
College of Religious Studies at Mahidol University, Bangkok, he was a senior researcher
at Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
in Göttingen, Germany, where he remains as research partner. He is
currently member of a research team led by Decha Tangseefa (Thammasat
University) on the Karen refugee crisis funded by the Thailand Research
Fund. Alexander spent many years in Thailand, speaks Thai, and did his
ethnographic fieldwork primarily in the mid-South and now Northwestern
Thailand.
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